School Cafeteria Yeast Rolls

I had a sweet reader contact me and share a wonderful recipe with me…..Thank you, Barbara Wright!! Barbara says, this recipe came from the high school where her mother taught Home Economics. This is the first yeast bread recipe she ever used. Makes great yeast rolls or cinnamon rolls. So, I had to try it and I will say it is a wonderful dough nice soft and great keeper recipe! Thanks for sharing Barbara and Barbara’s Mom!!

School Cafeteria Yeast Rolls

Soften yeast in 4 oz of the water. Add remainder of water (6oz) in another bowl. Add the sugar, salt, shortening and dry milk in bowl. Add 1¼ c flour and mix well. Add softened yeast and beaten egg. Add the remaining flour (2 ¾ cup) to make a soft dough. Knead until smooth and satiny. Place dough in greased bowl and grease top surface of dough. Cover and let rise until double. Knead and shape rolls. Let rise again until doubled. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. This dough can be used for cinnamon rolls.

See…it made a whole pan of yeast rolls, we enjoyed them for a family dinner. Then enjoyed them for sandwiches the next day. Then I cut them up and toasted them for croutons for a cobb salad and boy are they good made as croutons. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful recipe! Smiles!!
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Thanks for posting the recipe, I like making cloverleaf rolls in a muffin tin or just pan rolls out of the dough. I like to brush the rolls with melted butter when they come out of the oven. Nothing like hot rolls and butter. 🙂 🙂 🙂

My mom worked at the cafeteria over 37 years and I have a similar recipe but mine has eggs in it. I remember these rolls so well. I have dinner rolls rising right now on the cabinet. Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes.

I posted earlier, but hasn’t shown up, can you help me? I want to get that yeasty taste in the rolls, and so far, I haven’t got it. I have used several different recipes. Crisco, milk, unbleached flour, bread flour, and sometime butter. Nothing seems to give that taste. Thanks you for your input.

I have read and tried a lot of yeast rolls recipes, and still haven’t found one that give the yeasty taste I’m looking for. Can you help me? I will try your recipe today, but it doesn’t look much different than what I have made. Mabey it’s my nose. lol. Can’t smell.

Joy, I think it might be the yeast you are using perhaps ? I would try them with the SAF Yeast and lard as well that gives it the real taste you are looking for. They used lard only at the school I went too and I think if you do these two things you will get the taste you are looking for….I use the SAF yeast you can get it at Trader Joes and I get the lard at the grocery. It makes the AMAZING! let me know if you like it…smiles

oh Molly….Thanks dear! But, I was an awful baker with breads / rolls / biscuits all of them. I kept trying, did not give up and wal la then it clicked. I have learned many of the tricks to master many recipes. I show many of the things I have learned along the way. Now I try any recipe and for the most part have great luck. Don’t give up!! Wishing you success…smiles, Angie

Yum soooo good,I have been searching for the recipe for the old fashioned schoolhouse donuts,Had the recipe but lost it in many of my moving around,These were the best donuts ever.Please if someone has that recipe,would you mind sharing?

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